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Windows XP SP2 Delayed Until Late 2004

Posted by michael on from the day-late-and-dollar-short dept.

Aiua writes "BetaNews is reporting that Microsoft has pushed back the release date for the second Windows XP service pack to the third quarter of 2004 without giving any reasons." Update: 08/19 12:52 GMT by M : Another article claims it will be out three months earlier, no later than June 2004.

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  1. The press release has a typo in it by Surak · · Score: 5, Informative

    As I stated to daddypants, who IGNORED ME ahem, Michael, Wininformant has the real story. Due out in Q1-Q2 2004, not Q3-Q4.

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  2. ...and WinInformant says otherwise by OfficerNoGun · · Score: 5, Informative

    WinInformant says that the statement meant Fiscal year 2004, which ends in June 2004 for Microsoft, and that SP2 is due out mid 2004.

  3. Re:One thing I don't really get... by greenius · · Score: 4, Informative

    Errm... XP does have an automatic update facility, which can be set to automatically download critical updates... you can choose whether to be prompted before downloading and again and before installing... of course many people disable this because they don't want Microsoft installing stuff on their machines without them knowing.

    Or, manually, you can simply click "Windows Update" in the start menu/programs, which will determine what patches are available and allow you to select/deselect which ones you want to download and install.

    I'm not really sure how it could be much easier???

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  4. Re:calendar? or fiscal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative
    Microsoft have already confirmed this to be the case. See
    • http://www.neowin.net/
    It is fiscal 2004, therefore somewhere in the first quarter of 2004.
  5. Re:One thing I don't really get... by erasmus_ · · Score: 4, Informative

    What do you mean, they bury it where no one looks? Every install of XP I've ever done, the Auto Update icon shows up on the start bar after using it a short while, and prompts you to run the Automatic Update Wizard. The wizard gives you the option to automatically download updates and prompt you to install them, which is the default behavior and the one I prefer as well. Or you can just have it auto-install them.

    So, no one really has to look for it, unless they wish to change their wizard selections. If they do, it's on the auto updates tab in Control Panel > System.

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